Sag Harbor Historical Museum
Historical Calendar Highlights
The first stage route operated to Sag Harbor from New York.
The first building in Sag Harbor constructed for the sole purpose of being a school house was erected in 1786-1787. It stood at the corner of Madison and Jefferson Streets on a lot given by Braddock Corey.
Nancy Boyd marries Malcolm Willey.
Annie Burnham Cooper married John Boyd of Brooklyn.
A meeting is called to consult upon a House of Publick Worship in Sag Harbor.
Nancy Boyd Willey inherits the Annie Cooper Boyd House from her mother, Annie Cooper Boyd.
The attic and roof of The Nassau Hotel, where the current People's United Bank is located, caught fire and through the gallant efforts of the fire department the builidng was saved. It was later known as the Hotel Bay View.
Earliest record of a road from Sagaponack to Sag Harbor.
The luxurious home of Dr. P. Parker King on Hampton St was purchased for $5,000 and turned over to the Marymount nuns. A school followed, The Academy of the Sacred Heart of Mary.
The first issue of Long Island's first newspaper, "The Long Island Herald" was published by David Frothingham.
Joseph W. Foster listed as owning property, which is the current Annie Cooper Boyd House, "North of William Ball".
Annie Cooper becomes engage to John Boyd. "... there has risen a great & holy joy a deep sublime sweetness - a wonderful, unexpected, - unspeakable joy - for - on my third finger of my left hand flashes a beautiful diamond pledge of my own true lover's love ... he came, he saw, he conquered - it happened on Montauk Pt. - on a glorious day - the 19th of July." Annie Cooper Boyd wrote this in her diary on Sept. 5, 1894. Seven years and three months, from the first day she met him.
Nancy Boyd, daughter of Annie and John Boyd, is born.
Annie Cooper wrote in her diary this day of the man she would marry, "surely this is perfect love - I know he is not what I thought I was looking for - he is not rich, he is not handsome, he is not witty - nor yet brilliant - he is not a man of position in the eyes of the world - he is simple & only John Boyd - a man from Greenport - a wage-winner - a good - honest - noble man."
The wharf in Sag Harbor was crowded with immigrants awaiting passage to Connecticut to get away from the British who were occupying Long Island.
Joseph Foster, Jr. sells to William Cooper a triangular parcel containing a shop. This piece of property is north of the Foster house, today known as the Annie Cooper Boyd House.
William H. Cooper dies, leaving the Annie Cooper Boyd House to Annie.
Sag Harbor's first Post Office was estabished in a small lean-to attached to the home of the first Post Master Henry Packer Dering. East Hampton and Southampton relied on the Sag Harbor Post Office as neither had a post office of its own.
Nancy Boyd Willey dies leaving the Annie Cooper Boyd House to the Sag Harbor Historical Society.
Annie Cooper Boyd Collection
Painter and iconic local figure, Annie documented both the manmade and natural landmarks of historic Sag Harbor. See below for a monthly feature from our extensive collection.
